Maggie being a mom at Windy Meadows Family Farm
Windy Meadows Family Farm is run by a the friendliest family. Tucked within the tall pines and peaceful country side, you'll find Windy Meadows in Campbell, Texas, North of interstate highway 30, off highway 50. They sell the healthiest chickens and freshest hand picked chicken eggs you will ever eat!
From their site:
The Mike and Connie Hale Family and their children have raised pastured chicken and grass fed beef and lamb on their 40 acres of Windy Meadows Family Farm in North East Texas for nearly twenty years. Their concerns for food safety for their own children led them to the decision for raise natural meats without added hormones, antibiotics or feed stimulants. They now have a state-inspected poultry processing facility on their farm that produces pastured chicken and sausage for taste-discriminating palates in the Dallas area. Their customers fall into two categories: those who want pastured meats because they are raise in a more responsible manner, and those who simply want the best-tasting chicken. Some of the chicken raised by Windy Meadows Family Farm grace the tables of some of the finest four-star restaurants in Dallas that are seeking locally grown and responsibly raised nataural meats. Their chicken is available at several loctions in the Metroplex, including several buying clubs and farmers markets.
I'm fortunate enough to live down the road from their farm. I drive out on Mondays, I call first, and pick up my usual order (3 whole chickens, 2 dozens eggs, and bag of chicken soup bones). For everyone living near downtown Dallas, one convenient place to get their pastured meats is from the Texas Meats Supernatural at the Dallas Farmers Market booth in Shed 2. Look for the wood cabin.
The first thing I noticed after buying my first order from Windy Meadows was the minimal amount of fat on the whole chickens. I slathered that first chicken with butter, smoked salt & fresh ground pepper, stuffed it with a cut lemon and few cloves of garlic then baked it at 425ºF for 1 1/2 hours. Oh ho ho ho BABY!
Very little fat came off that chicken, I had just enough of the juices to make up a scrumptious sauce to pour over mashed potatoes. It was beautiful, I almost cried when I tasted the difference. All this time, wasted eating store bought chickens and having to cover it other ingredients to help them to have flavor. When all along, I could have been serving my family chicken that was raised as God intended. I'm glad to have Windy Meadows meats within reach.
As for the eggs, same praise is shouted here. For years now, I've paid extra to have the cage free chicken eggs from the grocery store. But even their flavor & yolk color does not compare to eggs from chickens raised on fresh grass, roaming around chasing & eating grasshoppers, worms & other insects. The happy chicken's yolk is a golden orange with notably more flavor you want on your plate for breakfast and in your baking. You haven't eaten the best quiche, unless it's been made from happy chicken eggs.
Check out Windy Meadows Family Farm website to learn more about them.
If you don't live anywhere near Dallas or Campbell, Texas, that's okay. You can still find grass fed chickens and their eggs near you. Go to Local Harvest.org, they have a wealthy database of farms, farmer's markets, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), food clubs and their own online store. I recommend joining their newsletter to learn about new farms opening up, festival information and when fresh season crops are available.
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